Quotes About Mistakes

Only those who are asleep make no mistakes. —INGVAR KAMPRAD, founder of IKEA,

Because being wrong is just an opportunity to find more of the truth.

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. —NIELS BOHR,

if you try to approach every problem with your moral compass, first and foremost, you're going to make a lot of mistakes. You're going to exclude a lot of possible good solutions. You're going to assume you know a lot of things, when in fact you don't, and you're not going to be a good partner in reaching a solution with other people who don't happen to see the world the way you do.

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field." –Niels Bohr Danish physicist and Nobel Prize winner

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

I start watching the Food Network for 1–2 hours a night to decompress from my start-up. Half-asleep one evening, I overhear Bobby Flay say, "Take risks and you'll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed. It's that simple.

Creo que la gente no aprende mucho en realidad del fracaso.

I'm not happy with the way I talk to my children. I try to say the right thing, but I always end up blowing it.

It's hard to be perfect, It really is. I keep learning things after I've already bungled it.

After all, a great number of history's spies had undoubtedly begun as the unfortunate victims of set-ups and extortion, but the faultless roots of their errors did not matter much to the firing squad.

Some people are lucky enough to stumble across the right path straight away; most of us only discover what the right one is by going down the wrong one first.

The greatest men sometimes overshoot themselves, but then their very mistakes are so many lessons of instruction.

The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakes—and only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions; only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations.

I like to believe in the good in people. But we're all going to screw up from time to time. It just happens. It really is how our best growth occurs.

You can lose a game with the kicking game faster than you can with offense and defense.

I know a lot of people who are very good at their craft who have learned - people behind the camera - who really have a lot to offer because they know what they're doing, they know what to do, they've made their mistakes.

By the time that I left Porto I had a few offers, and I probably chose the club that I shouldn't have gone to.

Officials are human beings, and sometimes we all make mistakes.

As far as being on the officials every five minutes, it's just not good for the game. The officials don't like it; you embarrass them, so it's just not good. Now, every now and then they might make a bad call, but officiating is hard.

Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.

I'm OK with making mistakes as long as I correct them and don't do it again.

Everything was my fault. I was so dumb. But if I hadn't made the mistakes I made, I wouldn't have met the wonderful woman I've been married to for over 30 years, so I guess that makes the mistakes OK.

If you are not making any mistakes, you are being excessively risk-averse. Investing involves risk, and that means you will occasionally be wrong. And although it is okay to be wrong, it is not okay to stay wrong.